I'm going out on a limb here, I realise, but it seems highly likely that this might actually be the best thing ever:

...Instead of the split screen or window TV viewers might typically see during live remote interviews [on election night], the Obama spokesperson will be projected as a three-dimensional hologram, making it appear as if he or she is in the Manhattan studio with [Wolf] Blitzer. The network plans to conduct similar holographic interviews with representatives from the McCain campaign in Phoenix.

Yes indeed: CNN plans to have campaign representatives filmed by 44 different cameras in Chicago and Arizona, then feed the data through 20 computers to result in a 360-degree image of the interviewee, there in the New York studio with Wolf Blitzer. CNN senior vice-president David Bohrman "says the network can project two different views from each city so Blitzer can appear to be in the studio with two holograms." This is, of course, almost indescribably brilliant; there's no word yet on whether Wolf Blitzer has been updated with a new voice chip to enable him to speak in a variety of pitches instead of a monotone, but CNN surely has its best minds on the matter. (PBS, meanwhile, are rumoured to be preparing to roll out a new gizmo, the "video screen", so that Jim Lehrer doesn't have to rely entirely on paper flipcharts. I'll believe it when I see it.)

If you're inclined to think CNN's plan at all absurd, don't forget that Sky News is currently broadcasting from a villa in Biscayne Bay, Florida, which it's calling "The White House" -- that's a joke, you see, because the White House in Washington is where the president lives. On election night, 150 guests will gather round the swimming pool there to discuss the results, and where a 54-foot yacht is being used to interview "floating voters", even though this is not a term anybody uses in the United States, thereby making a terrible pun worse.